Insecticide.



LOUIS F. FHIDE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PEXXSYLVANIA.

INSECTICIDE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ratented June 16, 1908.

Application filed April 15, 1908. Serial No. 427,173.

T 0 all 1071 0m it. may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS F. FRIDE, a citizen of the United States, residing at 4908 Frankford avenue, in the city of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, andstate of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Insecticide to be Used for the Purpose of Removing San Jose Scale and Killing Insects Destructive to Trees andVegetation, of which the following is a specification.

My insecticide consists of the following ingredients, combined in the proportions stated, viz: borax 44 per cent, powdered commercial lye 44L per cent., snuff tobacco 6 per cent., powdered alum 6 per cent.

One pound of the mixture of the above in gredients is to be mixed in fifty gallons of water, and this solution is to be sprayed upon the trees or vegetation which are either af fected by'the said scale or injurious insects, or it may be used for the purpose of protecting them from such scale or injurious insects. The water used in preparing the spray need not be heated. I am not aware that all the ingredients in my composition have been used together for this purpose' The herein described insecticide consisting of 44 per cent. boraX, 44 per cent. of powdered commercial lye, 6 per cent. of snufi tobacco and 6 per cent. of powdered alum.

LOUIS F. FRIDE.

Witnessest' J. WILLIS HoLToN, G. LAWRENCE GAFF. 

